RUSSIANS ANGRY AT NOT BEING INVITED TO PACIFIC CONFERENCE
Stockholm (JFK+50) On July 21, 1921, American Charge d 'Affaires Sheldon L. Crosby received "a long note" from Mikhajlovitch Kergentseff, chief of the Russian delegation to Sweden, "protesting (President Warren G. Harding's) failure to invite Russia to the Pacific conference* in Washington."
The note argued that the Soviet Union "is a sovereign power" possessing territories along the Pacific and that other powers were not authorized to represent her interests.
The note further stated that "the promoters" of the Pacific conference favor the Russian counter-revolutionaries.
*Between 1921 & 1922, the world's largest naval powers met in Washington, D.C. for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia. It was known as the Washington Naval Conference.
SOURCES
"Current Events, Foreign," The Literary Digest, Volume 70, July 1921-September 1921, Funk and Wagnalls Company, New York, www.books.google.com/
"Russia Indignant at Her Failure to be Invited to Arms Conference," The New York Tribune, July 22, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
